Parrot Culture–Now in Paperback
03/11/2010
Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World's Most Talkative Bird Bruce Thomas Boehrer 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 49 illus. Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2104-6 | $22.50… READ MORE
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Dictionary of the Ancient Near East–Now in Paperback
03/10/2010
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East Edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard 352 pages | 7 x 10 | 350 illus. Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2115-2 | $34.95 |… READ MORE
Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone–Now in Paperback
03/09/2010
Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka Sandya Hewamanne 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4045-0 |… READ MORE
On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea–Now Available
03/08/2010
On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea Sealing Cheng 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4217-1… READ MORE
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal Region, Siberia–Now Available
03/08/2010
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal Region, Siberia: Bioarchaeological Studies of Past Life Ways Edited by Andrzej Weber, M. Anne Katzenberg, and Theodore G. Schurr 344 pages | 6 x 9… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–George Cotkin on Morality’s Muddy Waters
03/03/2010
In the March podcast, noted cultural historian George Cotkin plumbs the depths of some of America's greatest ethical challenges of the past century–including the My Lai massacre, the debate over… READ MORE
Robert Darnton Makes the Case for Three Books on C-SPAN
02/23/2010
C-Span’s Book TV recently presented video of Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library and eminent historian of the book, giving a talk at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge,… READ MORE
Clay, Light, and Water–Now Available
02/19/2010
Clay, Light, and Water Margaret O’Rorke 128 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 120 color illus. Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2099-5 | $28.95 | £19.00 A volume in… READ MORE
John Walker McCoubrey
02/16/2010
We at Penn Press were saddened by the news of the death of John Walker McCoubrey, emeritus professor in the Department of the History of Art at the University of… READ MORE
Bloody Valentines: Two UK reviews of The Anatomy Murders
02/15/2010
This past weekend, both the Scotsman and BBC History Magazine showed some love for Lisa Rosner's The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and… READ MORE
